CIA trying to trigger civil war

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THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) intends to arm Kurdish militants in a bid to trigger a civil war in Iran after the United States...
Bakers Union in Manchester supporting the Young Socialists 248-mile March for Jobs from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike

Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase declared

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‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...

NHS Winter Crisis

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THE NHS needs a long-term plan rather than a short-term fix, doctors’ leaders said yesterday. Fearing a winter crisis in the NHS in England, the...

Abbas Suspends Contact With Israel

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Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...

‘Revoke Israel’s mass displacement order for Gaza City’ – demands Amnesty

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AMNESTY International has demanded that Israel immediately revoke its mass displacement order for residents of Gaza City, issued on 9th September, denouncing it as...

Israel must stop bombing Gaza says Hamas

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HAMAS has welcomed Trump’s statement that Israel should stop striking Gaza so that the second phase of the ceasefire can begin. This comes in response...
Tenants demanding social housing and protesting at rent rises that are converting them into the working poor

‘RENTQUAKE!’ –tenants face unaffordable rents

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‘RENTQUAKE’ has hit middle England as rents race above wages in market towns, said housing charity Shelter yesterday. Rents have risen 60% faster than...

Article 50 Showdown Postponed

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ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...
Local government workers on the May Day march in Athens organised by the Coalition of the Radical Left

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...

Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters block the street

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ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...
Anti-academy protestors demonstrating outside the headquarters of ARK yesterday

Stop Ark Take Over Of State Schools

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ANTI-ACADEMY protestors demonstrated yesterday afternoon outside the central London headquarters of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), which is involved in the building of 12...

Labour Rescues Cameron Government

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PM Cameron was rescued by Labour from a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons on Europe on Tuesday night after he faced his...

‘More doctors needed, not less’

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s draft NHS England workforce plan, which embraces low staffing levels, and replaces doctors with...

Israel threatens 14,000 people in Gaza’s Al Quds Hospital!

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ISRAEL is threatening Gaza’s Al-Quds Hospital and the 14,000 people who are sheltering there with bombardment. The Israeli occupation authorities issued their threat to completely...

Nurses driven out of the profession

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NURSES are working in ‘intolerable situations’ and feel ‘unsupported and undervalued’, with many thinking about leaving the profession, according to new RCN research published...

BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture

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‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround

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FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...

Cameron-TUC alliance!

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TORY PM Cameron and ex-TUC leader Brendan Barber have ‘put their differences aside’ and joined forces to write a joint article published in...
Picturehouse strikers on the picket line last year during their strike for a living wage

Picturehouse 9 days of strike action

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PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...

Russian trucks cross border!

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RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...
Angry anti-bedroom tax protesters outside Parliament on May 5

‘The Bedroom Tax Is Causing Real Chaos!’

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‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...

Bosses to get £1,000 for keeping workers on for 3 months after furlough!

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FEARFUL of workers’ fury at mass unemployment when furloughing ends, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a plan to try to persuade bosses to keep...

Syriza Caves In–But Workers Will Vote ‘No!’

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DESPITE last minute frantic efforts by the Greek government on Tuesday, an agreement with the EC, IMF and ECB for cash assistance was not...

‘Halt Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip’ – Hamas

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HAMAS has called upon Islamic nations and United Nations agencies to urgently address and halt Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza...

Al-Awda Hospital Fire Rages As Doctors Call Out For Support!

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AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...
RCN nurses campaigning in defence of the NHS and for jobs for all nurses

‘SCAPEGOATS FOR THE DEFICITS CRISIS’ – RCN condemns targeting of young foreign nurses

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Yesterday Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Beverly Malone condemned the government’s latest scheme to keep overseas junior nurses out of Britain. Responding to...

Blair & Straw ‘must have known’ about Aamer torture – claims SNP’s Alex Salmond

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EX-LABOUR Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ‘must have known’ about the torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer by the...

AMAZON MUST BE NATIONALISED! – WRP’s Leff tells HQ rally

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‘AMAZON and all companies and industries must be nationalised and put under public ownership,’ Jonty Leff, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and...

‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis

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‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...

Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions announced

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NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...

Birmingham Bin Strikers Stand Firm Against Up To £8,000 A Year Pay Cuts!

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AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...

Suspects’ detention extended to 28 days

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A High Court judge has given police another seven days to detain without charge, five suspects in connection with the alleged plot to blow...

Take to the streets to defend Gaza! urges Hamas

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‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...
Chagos Islanders marching in Crawley, Sussex – they demand the right to return to their home islands

UN votes: UK must go to The Hague over Chagos

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THE UN General Assembly voted by 94 countries to 15 that Britain should go to the International Court of Justice (The Hague) over...

Scottish school fire – No smoke alarms!

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EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...
Chase Farm maternity nurses determined to defend their hospital from closure

Government ‘Ignores Bma Warnings’

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Health Secretary Lansley’s decision to push ahead with the coalition’s massive attack on the NHS, in the teeth of fierce opposition, is ‘a...
GMB members marching to defend the NHS – the GMB is playing a leading role in the fight against the privatisation of Barnsley Hospital

Stop Barnsley Hospital Being Privatised Says Gmb

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BARNSLEY Central MP Dan Jarvis has backed a GMB campaign against the privatisation of Barnsley hospital. Demonstrators are expected to gather outside the hospital today...

Putin Stabs Libya In The Back Again

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RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...

PC Monk gets 8 years for Taser death – Dalian Atkinson’s family speaks out

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POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...

Israel escalating massacres of civilians – warns Hamas

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A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm...

Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

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ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...

Israel Plans To Execute Palestinian Prisoners!

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THE Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) national security committee for approving a draft law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. In a...
Lecturers and students marching from Kings College in central London last May against job cuts and tuition fees

Graduate Tax Robbery!

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The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...
Demonstrators outside the parliamentary hearings where James and Rupert Murdoch were quizzed by MPs this week

James Murdoch May Have Lied

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JAMES Murdoch came under further pressure yesterday as two Labour MPs suggested he may have lied to the House of Commons Culture, Media and...

Women denied treatment

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MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...